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Germany Places Command & Conquer on Restricted List
heli0 writes "CNet is reporting that Germany has placed EA's newest Command & Conquer game 'Generals' on its restricted list, which means it may not be advertised or displayed on shelves although it may be kept under store counters and sold to adults. The reason according to Elke Monssen-Engberding, director of the Ministry for Family Affairs: 'It portrays war as the only way to resolve conflicts.'"
Can we put George Bush onto a Restricted list? He certainly portrays war as the only way to resolve conflicts.
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The article says Electronic Arts believe it has something to do with what's going on in Iraq right now.
If this is the case, it's plain ignorance.
Many games are put on the restricted list in Germany, and this one isn't really a shocker. Perhaps if Timmy the Tooth: Decay Demolisher II was placed on this list there might be some questions behind the reasoning, but a war game? Not a surprise by a long shot.
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Anyone else wants to bet that sales will soar?
GTA3 was in the news here in Norway a lot when it was released. Different agencies and ministers connected with children all wanted to ban it. Result? Top seller in Norway that year...
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the title alone promotes war, portrays it as a skill, as something to strive for and improve on !
And solitaire, what kind of an asocial name with an egoist attitude is that ?
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
And my brother is a marine... muhahahaha
"We have evidence that the Brotherhood of Nod does indeed have a harvester. For all we know, they could be harvesting Tiberium as we speak."
"We Germans are not a warlike people"
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
A quote I saw the other day
"You know that times are stange when the best rapper in the world is white, the best golfer in the world is black, the Americas cup is held by landlocked Sweden, the French are accusing the Americans of arrogance and Germany is steadfstly refusing to go to war."
I agree with this decision. The reporting of this war has verged on pornography, with too many reporters getting excited about bombs and tanks and too little attention being paid to the human cost. They are right not to ban it, but right not to promote the joy of conflict at this time either.
"Everyone who has seen the first Harry Potter movie knows the brutal truth about what really happens when you 'capture' a piece in chess."
Or perhaps Star Wars and that round-boarded holographic chess game Chewy and R2-D2 were playing.
"They might also point out that only one piece out of 16 on each side is female. Why not half? It's sexist as well as violent!"
Ah yes, but she is by far the most powerful piece on the board, can be resurrected from the dead, and can be cloned. Besides, do you honestly believe that the King is the one in command? Hell no! That manipulative bitch is the one really pulling the strings in that army! She's obviously more than willing to let the other male pieces get slaughtered in the violent carnage while she hides behind her protective line of foot-soldier/cannon-fodder pawns (who are, no doubt, meager peasants forced to fight for the royalty to keep their farms). Oh yeah, she'll dart out every once in a while to attack, but as soon as she's threatened directly, she'll turn tail and run.
Yes, we are working hard here in to put chess on the restricted list, too. Then again, one might introduce some new rule, where the black king and the white queen can sit down on G4 and talk for a while, or we might replace the knight by a new figure: "the diplomat". The diplomat can't move, but will have some really cool abilities. What exactly is not yet clear, the EU games council is still negotiating.
Cheers, from good old Germany.
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I'm an American living in Germany. I was listening to the radio on the way home from work the other day. The announcer was listing off the traffic jams and construction sites of the day and casually mentioned that they were defusing a bomb in a particular area, and that people who weren't directly involved should avoid the area.
This wasn't major news -- unexploded ordinance from WWII is still occasionally found and needs to be taken care of. With such ever present reminders of the horrors of war you begin to understand why the Germans are so utterly opposed to starting them these days.
Because the Provos in Ireland are so upset about American hegemonistic tendencies that it's encouraged them to rise up and commit acts of terror, right? Ditto the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elan, the Basque nationalists, the PKK in Turkey, the New People's Army in the Phillipines, the Zapatistas in Chiapas State, and probably several others I've never heard of.
You "think Americans can only think of solutions in terms of warfare" because that's what grabs headlines. Brinksmanship is far more interesting on the world stage than a civil trade negotiation. Please note that when the Chinese were essentially holding U.S. Navy personnel hostage, that America did not go to war. Please note also that we are acting currently to enforce UN Security Council resolutions (most of them unanimous, if memory serves) that have been on the books for an even dozen years. Simply because some other countries object to the things they agreed to in the past doesn't mean our will must waver now.
When you make obviously inflammatory blanket statements that have no basis in fact whatsofuckingever, expect to get them thrown back in your face. Oh, and as for your statement about Americans trying to control the world, I leave you with a quote from Colin Powell:
They that would sacrifice their
'It portrays war as the only way to resolve conflict'
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In the intro they have somebody say:
"In the modern world, great leaders resolve conflicts with words, words like
Scud Luncher
Carpet bombing
Tomahawk missiles "
The game is pretty fun to play if it wouldn't crash all the time and reboot my system because my video card was a ATI Radeon 7200 and they can't make the game not crash on anything lesser then a 7500.